The noob would have to kill roughly 144,000 solen warriors and queens. which would earn them around 50,000,000 in gold and another 40,000,000 worth of gems and if they ran the powder another 108,000,000 worth of powder, almost enough to buy a decent PvP suit and Ethy ride, but nothing top of the line. Just using that as an example of how much actual work would go into equiping up. On the other hand using my gold farming technique without scripting I farm an average of 1.824 billion gold per year and lose most of it to gambling and Good looking NPC women. But seriously how does a noob even begin to figure out how to farm 5-10 mil per day?
Actually ZOOG back in the prime sold 670,000 lots of 100 powder of translocation Between Legends and GL. The 720,000 is my personal collection LOL I always said when I had collected my 1,000,000th Zoogie I will say I won UO and quit
And you are quite correct UO is what you make of it. LOL I have a friend who has yet to GM one skill since pre Ren but has achieved legendary at sitting around and talking. That is what makes UO so unique, you can do what ever you want, with no predefined goals or classes. You can make whatever goofy template you want and arm yourself with snowballs. Might be a T hunter for a few weeks running the Hag Quest and building Sacrifice and gaining low level maps, or spend a month on the seas fishing and pirating. There is a very big world in UO with pretty much endless things to do, I have yet to get bored with UO but I am not the kind to run through all of the new content as soon as it is released and then complain that there is nothing to do. Heck to me PvP would be boring the same handful of people killing each other over and over night after night and talking about the strange things they do to each others mothers and pets........... But hey if that is their things more power to them. A lot of people like to do the house deco thing, I make Borg cubes with boxes nothing wrong with either. Or if a guy wants to grow bright green snake plants and greenthorns to build his personal collection of Carrots and Brightly colored Eggs who is anyone to say his play style is wrong........ It is UO after all and you are not forced into any class or role.
the most stupid weapon of self-destruction ever implemented in this game.
For just a hair below 3Billion you to can have the rarest pet in game and the best suit and wait that is not all for a Mere $750 more our team can hook you up with an Atl. Castle bringing it to around only 6.5 billion to have all the top tier gear, pets and housing......... You to can be the Ultimate Bank Sitter or House hider LOL
Gotta agree on the transfers being the worst thing to come down the pike. It started with High Pop Shard people swarming to low pop shards to farm without competition for the first couple of years and then a mass exodus of shard regulars moving to the high pop shards. I got to where I started shopping on ATL and transferring the goods I needed to Legends just because I couldn't find the things I needed on Legends anymore. I couldn't find a 25 stat and a 120 mage and after several weeks of trying just said screw it and transferred a toon with gold to atl spent the 100 mil I took with me on the scrolls and few other things I couldn't find on legends anymore and transferred back home 24 hours later. And now days just do a transfer to get things I want or need, instead of playing the spam game or searching hopelessly for things on shard.The economy is so insane. It's ridiculous. I am not sure if I would still play UO if I wouldn't have moved to Siege. There were moments, when shardhoppers on EM-events, EM-events themselves and the behavior of so called "traders" with their arrogant, greedy and turbo-capitalist attitude made me aggressive towards UO. Taken into account that most shards except ATL became wastelands with almost no vendors and a decent playerbase, I was really bored and annoyed. I had my accounts, hopped into my shards only to see empty vendors and quiet chats. It was so sad to see.
I know I was talking differently on this board. I was an idiot. I know, I had to change my attitude. But now I learned that shards transfers were one of the major reasons for the collapse of 80 percent of shards. Shard transfers are an instrument of the devil!
UO was saved for me, when I moved to Siege, my love for this game has never been greater before. It's so wonderful that there are none of these magnates and tycoons and pvp-trashtalkers with their shiny suits and glacial blue crap-hair. And that game mechanics works as intended there: Looted gold actually means something as you can buy stuff for 10k or 100k or 1 mil, which is a good amount of money there. Quests make sense, looting resources makes sense. And the people I really hate, scripters and cheaters simply get killed. In Luna Atl. every second "trader" tries to scam and/or insult you. Try that on Siege and you are dead and looted dry. Luna Atlantic for me stands symbolic for everything that went wrong in this game. I was one of them, although I never tried to squeeze the last penny out of my customers. I rather lost gold than losing a nice social contact. I never was one of those gold-prostitutes which are shamelessly offering their services in Luna-Sodom. But I was there and played their game.
I was Saulus. Now I am Paulus on my mission for Siege. Or any other shard which does not offer shards -transfers.
If you ask me, what might improve UO, it would be a rigorous anti -cheating -policy, the end of the shard -transfer -system and the removal of at least 2 or 3 Zeros on all bank accounts.
And in the grand scheme of things I have a lot less stuff than many of the other Siege long timers. That makes a big gap between the person new to Siege and the Person that has been here for 10+ years. But that atleast balances out a bit in that prices on things are A LOT lower on Siege and Gold is just as easy to farm thus making your efforts more worthwhile and the things you want or need more obtainable. As an added bonus the people that play Siege are overall a pretty cool collection of folks......... Of course I would not dream of going out in a 2470 luck suit or any top tier suit for that matter and run basic reforged 1100 luck suits for my activities or my Signature dragon scale melee suits, if I die I have 100 more to replace them with. People get way to hung up on dying and losing something. My problem is I split my play time between Siege, Legends and Great Lakes as the urge strikes me. I do keep one house in the Atlantic Cesspool for the shard shields and shopping but rarely go there now days unless I need a scroll or some item I can find on leg or gl. And yes I know I should not be playing at all this time of year but I can't do much farming when we get a inch of rain almost every other day and the ground has been Saturated since March.
I am small time and only do 80 acres of grain 160 acres of pasture for pigs, cattle and poultry and 12 acres of veggies. I have thus far managed to mud in 100 tomatoe plants 100 pepper plants and 3 rows of lettuce. Too late to plant corn at this point and get any kind of crop, so going to plant those 80 acres in annual ryegrass or rye and turnips for winter forage, going to end up buying 10,000 bu of my neighbors corn for the winter chicken and pig feed since he did manage to get 400 acres of sloped ground planted. And veggies are just going to be lean this year. On the bright side I get more time to post on Stratics and play UO. On the really bright side the pigs are loving all this mud
but then i'd go into a negative balance
But you are wealthy beyond measure!but then i'd go into a negative balance
This will not fix UO in fact it could be the very death blow all these UO IS DIEING posters would love to see. Give the player base something meaningful to buy but taking away gold just to take it away is insanity at its best.
And have been back ever since. It's a great game, it just needs more people advertising it.Broadsword needs to try having official, paid PR/community support people for UO again. I will never understand why they have at least two people doing that job for Dark Age of Camelot but absolutely no one doing it for UO. If they hired someone to do PR/community work, Broadsword could also try replicating for UO the Knights of the Round Table program that they have for Dark Age of Camelot. However, since the Knights program doesn't actually pay cash to anyone (Knights get a comped account), I suppose something like it would never fly in UO.I think the main reason new players aren't playing is just because there isn't alot of adverting anymore. There are so many people out there now a days "new to the gaming world" because of World of Warcraft that have never even heard of this game but would highly enjoy it.
The other night myself and a few others were streaming actual game-play on twitch of the Atlantic shard. Just running around killing mobs, someone else was setting up traps for stealing, another one was pvp'ing in a little mini arena. There were thousands of people coming and going and the most common question asked was, "What game is this!!" And about 90% of the people watching wanted to know how to get into the game.
Once they camped for awhile and started learning a few things about the game, the biggest issue was the sub costs, but most loved the 14 day trial before you commit to subbing. I made a new character on Atlantic just to join some of these people in game and hopefully show them around. Which surprisingly a few stayed and are still playing now.
Nobody has streamed UO in about two weeks now, and it is showing. I will stream it again on Twitch no doubt soon, but it just goes to show right there. Advertising. This game needs it. Twitch is only a very Small portion of the advertising pie. There is also Youtube and Hitbox plus many more social media pages and the like that cost nothing to advertise with.
I love UO and have been playing UO since 1998, I took a year off when WoW came out... I had to try it...
As for dead? Oh hell no. It's been how many years now and the sub shards are still up? It wont go down anytime soon, as long as there are people still subbing to the game, and I can't speak for everyone else, but as long as I have a job with a spare 20 per month i'll be subbed to support my favorite game.
Exactly why the advertising should be targeted at the 30+ age group, we have the money, the numbers and the time to indulge in UO. As point of fact UO is only $10 per month if you pay in 6 month blocks. Shard mergers would not swell the population, merely concentrate the population. Free to play is not free and would likely cost much more than $10 per month, so you still could not afford it. So other than a $10 monthly sub that you obviously can't afford, what is stopping you or your little friends from jumping into the sandbox? And free shards from what I have seen are generally pretty crappy and flaky, not to mention tend to disappear without warning. Yep we know each other as this sand box evolved that is only natural. "unwellingness" "evryone" has the education system really gotten that bad?
You really think the 30+ age group is a thriving video game market....I'll just be polite and say you're seriously mistaken about that.
And domino's pizzas only cost $10 if you order 10 at the same time...it doesn't change the fact that the price of a single pizza is $20.
The fact that all the shards are dead...duh!
I'd laugh hard if I saw this game advertise for $15 a month.100% agree. Advertising is urgently needed. Singing this song for years now
Without question it is easily a $30 value
And it would be advertise at $10 USD a month
But not mention that you need to buy 3 different expansion packs all at $20 each and you'll have to wait 14 years until you can access and use the by far best item in game (aka. shard shields).
Again, you're clearly bringing valid counter-arguments to this discussion, I've really had to rethink my position now. F2P is clearly a bad idea and 30-40 year olds are clearly a great market to advertise to.
Did you post your little SNARK to anybody else and did I say anything about anything else other than reply to a person talking about the monthly cost? TROLL very much?
Whoa no snark intended. I just thought it was a detail worth pointing out, considering this thread is about why new players won't try the game. One thing I think that prohibits them is both the cost and confusion of the various expansion packs you need to buy just to get started in this game, and also the monthly fee whether it's $10 or $15, that's too much and will only keep new users from giving the game a try.
The colored statement is - to me - the real reason we don't see new folks. It does take commitment and patience - which (again IMO) gamers who bounce all over are not willing to do. It's the days of nearly instant gratification and if you need to work for it, then it's not worth it.
I don't mind merging shards IF - all my stuff is intact when it's done. All rares that I have, all chests, the house, bank box ... everything. But the logistics of that entire process are not easy and shard transfer is ... well ... just not something for the faint at heart.
Yeah, I would think/hope that keeping all your items would definitely be the case. I would like to think they could even create new landmasses to park houses on...but I won't get overly optimistic.
It's not so much "I can get it for free," it's, "there's a better product here and it just so happens to not have a monthly subscription." You can still spend RL money on free servers, I know plenty of folks who have done that. The main allure for me and folks I play with is that the free server has a large, thriving population. I can go to West Brit bank and easily see 20+ active players, many of whom I don't know and never seen before. The same is true when I go to dungeons, or play capture the flag, etc. In short, the free server actually feels like an MMO because it has a larger population than any single prodo UO shard (i won't even go into the content and support that the free server has introduced).
Lol I don't think you know what peer pressure is...but my peers don't care what video games I decide to play in my own spare time when they're not around.
1) CoD is a shooter, with several different game types that you just play on repeat, and consist of like 20 people per game...not really comparable to UO.
Ok, my 2 cents:
Well your post is destined to be removed in a few minute, for breaking that cardinal rule of mentioning the unsanctioned script sites
Too bad as you made many valid points... Maybe they will just edit out the offenses..........
I edited the post, tytyWell your post is destined to be removed in a few minute, for breaking that cardinal rule of mentioning the unsanctioned script sites
I am actively writing on this board for 5 years now and reading for 7-8 years. Not much compared to the legends. But I can tell you one thing, there are bazillions of threads about FTP, Merging and so on. Every week we get another thread. Sometimes twice a day. Everybody arguing here should be clear that you wont get the changes you want as long as there is a playerbase that pays for 3+ accounts via solid CC-suscription over years. That´s a gold-donkey for EA. If I were EA, I wouldnt change anything. Many others pointed that out. You guys are beating a dead horse.
I have not seen anything from the official UO FB page in my newsfeed for about a year now. Hell use the FB paid promotions. If I can use it for my little company and drop $500-$600 and generate 10 new subs for my products that Cost $3,000-$5,000 per year Seems like a good arrangement to me. My last adcamp on FB reached 281,000 people and generated around $45,000 in new business can't remember the exact cost but it was less than $1500. I would imagine EA/BS could field a much larger and better AdCamp than that.Hey man, really original ideas and really insightful input. It kind of reminds me of the ideas that I put forward and you then responded with personal attacks about my education and income, what a coincidence.
Seems to be pretty contradictory statements. So scripting on some things isn't an "easy button" but scripting on other things is?
I do see your education did not include how to read and comprehend, so......About the only way to respond to you is.
Yeah, I mean, god forbid you actually articulate what you're saying.
